Mark Sanders

A Back List for the Curious:

Chapbooks, Books, and Anthologies

 

Since 1979, Mark Sanders has published numerous chapooks and collections of poetry and prose, and edited anthologies and poetry series devoted to regional poetry and fiction.  The list is too long to include, here; however, here is a sampling of representative work from the past thirty-five years.  All of these books are now out-of-print, though copies may sometimes be found online. 

 

ANTHOLOGIES:

 

The Sandhills and Other Geographies:  An Anthology of Nebraska Poetry (Sandhills Press, 1980).

 

The Sandhills: II (Sandhills Press, 1981).

 

Jumping Pond:  Poems and Stories from the Ozarks (SMSU Press, 1983); co-edited with Michael Burns.

 

On Common Ground:  The Poetry of Ted Kooser, William Kloefkorn, Greg Kuzma, and Don Welch

       (Sandhills Press, 1983); co-edited with J. V. Brummels.

 

The Decade Dance:  A Celebration of Poems (Sandhills Press, 1991).

 

The Plains Sense of Things:  Eight Poets from Outstate Nebraska (Sandhills Press, 1997).  Features the

     poetry of J. V. Brummels, Shirley Buettner, Neil Harrison, Larry Holland, Mark Sanders, Barbara

     Schmitz, Don Welch, and Kathleene West.

 

The Plains Sense of Things 2:  Eight Poets from Lincoln, Nebraska (Sandhills Press, 1997).  Features the poetry

     of Stephen C. Behrendt, Twyla Hansen, William Kloefkorn, Ted Kooser, Hilda Raz, Marjorie Saiser, Roy

     Scheele, and Susan Strayer.

 

The Plains Sense of Things 3:  A Tribute to Larry Holland (Sandhills Press, 1999).  Following the death of Larry               Holland in March 1999, this collection of poems and memoirs was compiled to the memory of one of                       Nebraska's poetry-pioneers; contributors included his contemporaries and friends:  J. V. Brummels,

      Twyla Hansen, Neil Harrison, Joan Hoffman, William Kloefkorn, David Lee, Mark Sanders, Barbara Schmitz,

      Red Shuttleworth, Don Welch, and Paul Zarzyski.

 

Three Generations of Nebraska Poets, a special issue of The Midwest Quarterly 52.4 (2011).  Co-edited with

     Steven Meats, featuring the work of 66 poets from Nebraska, including Kloefkorn, Kooser, Welch, Kuzma,

     Brummels, Dixon, Stillwell, West, and many others.

 

The Plains Poetry Series (Sandhills Press, 1985-1992).  Sanders and J.V. Brummels co-edited six volumes of 

     poetry by single authors from 1985-1988; thereafter, Sanders brought out three additional titles for the

     Series.  The Series included work by Kathleene West, Barton Sutter, Roy Scheele, M. K. Stillwell, Robert 

     Lietz, Barbara Schmitz, and Don Welch.

 

The Main-Travelled Roads Chapbook Series (Sandhills Press, 1993-2008).  Sanders brought out more than 24

     chapbooks of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction in a 15 year period.  Among the writers included in this series

     are Ron Wallace, David Baker, Larry Holland, Barbara Schmitz, Greg Kosmicki, Kelly Cherry, Kathleene West,

     William Kloefkorn, Ted Kooser, Don Welch, Roy Scheele, Steven Schneider, David Allan Evans, Kelly Madigan, 

     CarolAnn Russell, and numerous others.  Part of the mission of MTR was to bring to print work that, 

     because it was experimental, might not have found publication elsewhere.

 

 

 

CHAPBOOKS:

 

Sanders has published more than 20 poetry, fiction, and prose chapbooks, pamphlets, and books since 1979.  Below is a gallery of a number of the collections.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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